Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (17 November 2014)

United Nations - 17 November, 2014
Ebola Update by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General at the Daily Noon Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.
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The Secretary-General is on his way back from Australia, where he attended the Group of 20 Summit in Brisbane over the weekend. During the summit, the Secretary-General attended sessions on strengthening growth and job creation in the global economy, on trade and on how the international community can best scale up its response to Ebola.
In a press conference he held on Saturday morning, the Secretary-General highlighted the need for global action in three critical areas: promoting inclusive growth and decent jobs, meeting the climate challenge and providing financing for sustainable development.
The Secretary-General said that the international community needed to intensify its effort to halt the spread of Ebola. And he emphasized the amazing work of the front-line health workers, whom he called extraordinary people who are giving all for others. The full transcript is online.

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On Ebola, the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response today mourns the passing of Marcel Rudasingwa, Assistant Secretary-General and the Mission's Emergency Crisis Manager in Guinea. A Rwandan national, Mr. Rudasingwa passed away suddenly from natural causes.
The Head of the UN Mission, Anthony Banbury, said that in just a short space of time, Mr. Rudasingwa played a pivotal role in the Organization's and the international community's response to the Ebola crisis in Guinea.
Our thoughts are with Mr. Rudasingwa’s family at this time.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities have declared the end of a separate Ebola outbreak in Equatorial Province.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Moustapha Soumare, praised the national authorities for their rapid and coordinated response, despite enormous logistical challenges, and paid tribute to the bravery of aid teams, in particular to the eight health workers who died in the early days of the outbreak.
Still on Ebola, the World Bank launched today a new campaign called “11 Against Ebola” with football players from some of Europe’s biggest clubs.
Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona’s Neymar Jr., Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Bayern Munich’s Philipp Lahm are among the players who share 11 simple health messages selected with the help of doctors and health experts using the slogan “Together, we can beat Ebola” and the hashtag #wecanbeatebola.
We have more in a press release from the World Bank.